Today I took an organized tour offered by the hostel. It was complete with two stops for our purchasing pleasures.
For those of you not familar with this hustle, it works like this:
Start on tour with guide of questionable ability
Throw in system of kickbacks
Stop at various shops along the way. You get a little "educational" lecture on how difficult it is to produce the handicraft in question. Then you're set free to buy away.
This happened twice before we saw either site on the tour.
We saw the Ming Tomb, apparently the one that's really boring.
Then we went to the Great Wall. Let me just say that it is not ADA compliant. I did not roll down any sections of the wall. It was steep, and a lot of hard work.
Pictures and more explanation will be forthcoming once I overcome the language/computer issues (see previous post).
3 comments:
umm, have you considered getting one of them pimple-faced chinese computer nerds at the place to put things into "engrish" err, english? (: damn, i love being able to say that about my own people! cuz the option was there in Taiwan.
Well Red I'm glad you seem to be eating and coping quite well--and tho you didn't roll down the hills of the Great Wall--we all know that you wished you could!
So, in the Pictures, was that smog or fog in the hills around The Great Wall.
I checked the weather in the general area you are at--and it seems you are having weather like Champaign, except you are getting lots of sun-- it's cloudy and rainy here....
I haven't seen anything about Buster posted here yet--is this where we will find the Buster updates also?
As always--Bridges and overpasses--and watch out for those cruves...
Chris
That would have been smog... It is actually much worse in Beijing. And I will get on the Ps about the Buster updates. His birthday is coming up - 4 Nov.
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